As a corn and soybean farmer, it gives me great pleasure to produce the most affordable and safest food supply on Earth. According to the USDA, Americans spent 9.9 percent of their income on food and beverages in 2005 - the lowest of any nation in world. On average, the cost of food inputs represents only 19 cents of each dollar spent on food. Market demand is telling farmers to grow more corn-and they're listening. The demand for corn that's being driven by the emergence of the biofuels...

Hedges Washington Bureau Published May 16, 2007 WASHINGTON -- Federal food safety regulators announced Tuesday that the level of contaminated animal feed consumed by hogs does not pose a risk to humans who eventually consume that pork, and they have lifted a quarantine that kept 56,000 hogs from going to slaughter. Hedges Washington Bureau Published May 16, 2007 WASHINGTON -- Federal food safety regulators announced Tuesday that the level of contaminated animal feed consumed by hogs does...

agencies found that even under the most extreme scenarios, the potential exposure from consuming meat from hogs and chickens known to have been fed animal feed containing melamine "was about 2,500 times lower than the dose considered safe," said Kenneth Petersen, assistant administrator of the Office of Field Operation in USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service, who also testified. There is no evidence linking human illness to certain Chinese food imports tainted with melamine or...

WASHINGTON - Federal food safety regulators announced Tuesday that the level of contaminated animal feed consumed by hogs does not pose a risk to humans who eventually consume that pork, and they have lifted a quarantine that kept 56,000 hogs from going to slaughter. WASHINGTON - Federal food safety regulators announced Tuesday that the level of contaminated animal feed consumed by hogs does not pose a risk to humans who eventually consume that pork, and they have lifted a quarantine that...

GM foods, crops - preparing for worldwide genetic control. Despite rules to the contrary, GM (Genetical Modification) experiments have been going on across India with the complicity of the Indian Government. Genetic News (BioValley Portal)